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EUDYNAMYS HONOKATA. 
that this is why the nest of the Common Grey Crow is chosen. These clever birds seem to know that they 
are imposed npon by the Koels, and consequently hold them in strong disbke constantly attacking and 
pursuing them during the breeding-season. When the female Koel is about to intrude her egg into the Cron 
nest she is accompanied sometimes by the male. It is supposed that the young Koe eject* t ic lows 10m 
the nest, as in the case of the Common Cuckoo; for Mr. Hume found a young one in a nest with three Crows 
newly fledged, and a week later “the Crows were missing, and the young Cuckoo thriving. lie young 
Cuckoos persistently follow the Crows for some time after they have “ flown,” and are even then fed by them 
with as much care as if they were their own offspring. 
Subfam. PHCENICOPHAIN JE. 
Bill robust, in most species higher than wide ; culmen much curved. Nostrils not swollen 
and more or less linear. Tail long and graduated. Tarsi robust and naked, or slightly feathered 
on the upper part. 
